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by phillmv 12y ago
>An investigation by Apple’s lawyers cleared Mr. Jobs of wrongdoing, saying he didn’t understand the accounting implications. I'm being hyperbolic but it strikes me as unlikely that Jobs sat down, opened up Quickbooks and just fiddl
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by phillmv 12y ago
What an utterly obnoxious way to frame the issue.
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by phillmv 12y ago
Man, the Amazon subcontracted and watched down to the second with no room for human discretion warehouse worker stories are bone chilling.
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by phillmv 12y ago
Bundler audit is entirely local; you install it as a gem, and it fetches a fresh copy of the database on its own. Regarding Gemcanary, we're actually in the midst of building something just like that because we deeply hate storing Gith
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by phillmv 12y ago
Yeah, like I mentioned above the app I built ( https://gemcanary.com ) automates disclosure notification, and I believe? https://codeclimate.com/ may use the advisory database as well, but I do not know for a fact
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by phillmv 12y ago
Hey! I'm one of the maintainers behind the Ruby advisory database: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db We're trying to build a common database for people building these tools; at the moment, trawling
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by phillmv 12y ago
So, all software has two problems. First one is finding, reporting and getting vulnerabilities. Most people don't perform security audits. Most vendors take forever to reply back to security reports. Infuriatingly, many vendors will ro
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by phillmv 12y ago
>No, it's certainly been true. Pray tell, is your threat model a revanchist, bankrupt Russia from the 90s making a daring lunge across Alaska? Canada's only credible threat is, well, America. >In fact I've seen credible
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by phillmv 12y ago
My understanding is that all first world countries are experiencing growing income inequality, it's just that the US/UK have much larger income inequalities.
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by phillmv 12y ago
That argument might've held sway prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I don't think that's been true for the past 25 years :).
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by phillmv 13y ago
I wonder if we'll start seeing startup fatigue. Then again, a company just failing must be vastly more common. I've noticed that these days I avoid all free services and, when the information is available to me, will pick the life
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by phillmv 13y ago
Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997. OSX and the iPod came out in 2001. So, Jobs was an outlier. But the eulogizing is starting to get out of hand.
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by phillmv 13y ago
I've said this downthread but I'll say it again: Rendering someone's content inaccessible without any means to get it back is outrageously insidious. It violates the implied social contract you have with your users. It's
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by phillmv 13y ago
Dude. If someone took my handle on instagram and thus I can no longer access any of my photos I would LOSE MY SHIT. It's totally unacceptable, especially for non techies who don't back up their stuff, to jut shut off access to you
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by phillmv 13y ago
Ideally, you find other short tasks that you needed to get done but in practice I keep a New Yorker or a book by my desk. Less likely to only come to my senses half an hour and 8 tabs later ;).
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by phillmv 13y ago
Routines. Flaubert once said, "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." Go to bed at roughly the same time. Get up at roughly the same time. Eat breakfast (prevents sugar crashes
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by phillmv 13y ago
This was insanely fast. Having video release date deltas not measured in weeks and months is a great achievement.
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by phillmv 13y ago
I would just counsel that there are more angles in our relationship to work above and beyond pure supply and demand. You have (employment) market liquidity, you have long standing cultural practices, you have collective action problems, etc
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by phillmv 13y ago
Data is tricky in these situations. I doubt anyone collects statistics on acquihires let alone "girlfriends or wives who help out in startups but don't get paid for it", or "HR people who got shafted with useless stock o
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by phillmv 13y ago
You're missing out entirely on the point of the article. The notion is that "women's work" is devalued, and there are all these social reasons women find themselves being underpaid or not paid at all for above and beyond
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by phillmv 13y ago
Yes entirely on name, visual identity and first three paragraphs. More like this for serious vulns, please. Also, what a great name. The remaining of the page is a loud reminder of the gap between the sec and dev communities, at least as pr
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by phillmv 13y ago
Given the severity of this bug, the UX of the site is failing anyone who isn't a fulltime sysadmin. Suggestion: big, bold TLDR ("The sky is falling. Check your OpenSSL version right now") with a link on what to do sorted by O
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by phillmv 13y ago
>But these arguments seem to lead to the conclusion that you shouldn't be an LP, not that you shouldn't take venture money. I have a very limited understanding, but the impression I got is that VCs typically have short maturity
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by phillmv 13y ago
The way I interpreted it was more, failure in VC terms is "not blowing up". That $15 mil investment might be acquihired, or continue to be unexcitingly profitable, or put up on the chopping block for its patent portfolio. They mig
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by phillmv 13y ago
I imagine it'd depend on the density of deliveries. Once the truck is loaded and navigating a town, the marginal cost of a re-delivery is probably negligible compared to the logistical problem of recomputing optimalish routes and atten
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by phillmv 13y ago
How many roundabouts would you… round-a-bout in the process, tho?
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by phillmv 13y ago
Which is a hateful policy, in my mind. It in effect says "controversial things are not worth talking about".
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by phillmv 13y ago
From the recode recap - http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich... >“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could no
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by phillmv 13y ago
The whole point is that cperciva has a unique competitive advantage in operating tarsnap in that he's a remarkably good at that problem set. patio11's whole point is that he loves both tarsnap and cperciva and thinks literally eve
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, I hope he changes the "auto deleted if you don't check your email for 14 days" and just charges my credit card accordingly . Operating on pre-payment is kind of nutty.

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